Page 125 of Daddies' Captive

“Uh-huh. Nots my magic beans, though. I wish my magic beans helped with my sore back.”

“Um, what are your magic beans?” he asked.

“Jelly beans, silly!” She started giggling.

Strange. Those pills hadn’t had this effect on her last time. It was like she was drunk or high.

“Come in,” he called out.

Nate poked his head in, his eyebrows rising as he took in Effie on his lap. But Grady didn’t care. He could think whatever he liked.

Steele and Grady intended to claim Effie. Perhaps it was time they actually did that instead of tiptoeing around things the way they had for the last week and a half.

If Nate knew she was his and Steele’s, he’d never have allowed her to work as a server out in the bar.

No fucking way.

And he would have called him straight away to let him know something was going on with her.

Yeah, he wanted everyone to know she was theirs.

“What is it?” he asked more sharply than he intended to.

“I brought Effie’s handbag in.”

“Thanks.” He held out his hand.

Effie leaned back against him and looked up at Nate. “Hi, Nate.”

“Hey, honey. You feeling any better?”

“I feels great. I’m not in any pain and that is always amazing.”

“No pain?” Nate asked, looking worried.

“She has an old back injury. Sometimes it flares up.”

“Was it hurting earlier, Effie?” Nate asked. “You looked like you were in pain.”

“Yeah. But it would’ve been okay if that guy hadn’t grabbed me.” She wrinkled her nose.

“Who the fuck grabbed you?”

Grady felt relief as Steele entered the room. Maybe he could work out what was going on with her. Surely her pain killers wouldn’t be enough to make her go like this? But that seemed to have been the only thing she ingested.

Effie reached up her arms. “Horsie! Giddy-up!”

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That wasn’t exactly the greeting he’d expected.

Steele gaped down at Effie. Although that wasn’t his biggest surprise.

Nope, that was the fact that Effie was sitting in Grady’s lap.

Grady’s. Lap.

The man who didn’t really give affection unless it was expected of him, and then it didn’t mean anything as he was only going through the motions.

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